1) a live bat (inside our electronics maintenance shop)

2) a *crisp* $50 bill (a guy filled up his truck and paid with a $50, not realizing that there were two of them stuck together... I endured 2.5 seconds of serious internal conflict, but ultimately handed the extra one back to him)

3) a 3/8" socket that had clearly been used as a bowl to smoke some "kind bud"

4) a major credit card left behind by a customer who had just been pretty jerky to me (no comment - use your imagination)

5) a CD-R labeled "Burmese Song Collection" featuring slick cover versions of hits such as Shania Twain's "Man, I Feel Like A Woman", with the lyrics sung in what I can only assume is Burmese (we received a shipment of new PCs at the university and one of the new, fresh-out-of-the-box PCs had this in its CD-ROM drive)

#5 Sounds like a hoot...you should post them somewhere....

goosman wrote:#5 Sounds like a hoot...you should post them somewhere....

Yes, I suppose I should, now that you bring it up... or maybe at least some tiny little samples... truly unfair of me to keep this all to myself...

the best things i have found at work, in order of appearance:

1- small very detailed anatomical model of a man and a women. both made of fiberglass and used to find the correct scale for stop-animation work done in the 70's. that is the 19 hundred and 70's.

2- fiberglass shoe, an old new balance sneaker. probably the most detailed cast i have ever seen.

3- fiberglass foot complete with toe-prints and noticeable abrasions, the pads of the toes match perfectly to the indentations in item 2.

4- a worker from another office sitting calmly in a chair while blood pumped out of his thumb in long archs. also, strangely, had ice cubes pressed against it trying to damn up the torrent with melting water.

yay!

I work at a college bookstore. We find a lot of love notes and photos in the books. Most of the photos are lame spring break kinds of things, BUT- this one time we found one that I wish to seven suns I had kept. It was a standard family type photo : Mom sitting next to television set with kid in lap. On the television set was a football game. BUT, there was something else on the TV also. As sort of an overlay to the football game was this borderline convincing image of a green monster head, like one you'd see from a Troma movie. It was exactly on the screen, the football game was clearly visible. It didn't APPEAR to be staged, but i suppose it could have been.

This was in the days before high resolution digital cameras, so it was a real photo (not a computer print out). God... I need to find that thing.

Tom wrote:It was a standard family type photo : Mom sitting next to television set with kid in lap. On the television set was a football game. BUT, there was something else on the TV also. As sort of an overlay to the football game was this borderline convincing image of a green monster head, like one you'd see from a Troma movie. It was exactly on the screen, the football game was clearly visible. It didn't APPEAR to be staged, but i suppose it could have been.

This was in the days before high resolution digital cameras, so it was a real photo (not a computer print out). God... I need to find that thing.

whoa! if you can find this, you should post it. it sounds pretty neat.

I used to have this job putting together the bio/chem test kits that the UN used in Iraq a little over a year and one day we got in this order and the styrofoam peanuts kinda looked like cheese curls. So, me being the bastard that I am, I proceeded to spray paint them orange since April Fools was right around the corner. We had a heat sealer so I bought a bag of cheese curls, swapped em out and then filled the bag with my Punk'd worthy evilness. To make a long story short, I got my friend Greg to believe that they were real but I couldn't actually let him eat them so I stopped him just as he was about to take a bite. I also worked for Verizon as a tech and found a shitload of roaches. Not of the herbal kind for all you stoners.

Slash's home phone number on a piece of paper. We were so upset that the number had been disconnected. It could have meant HOURS of fun.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

5) a CD-R labeled "Burmese Song Collection" featuring slick cover versions of hits such as Shania Twain's "Man, I Feel Like A Woman", with the lyrics sung in what I can only assume is Burmese (we received a shipment of new PCs at the university and one of the new, fresh-out-of-the-box PCs had this in its CD-ROM drive)

You should send a copy to Alan Bishop so he can release it.

While at this one particularly painful office job in Chicago, I found the boss's checkbook (with a decent $40K+ balance, which was far more than he was paying me) in one of the bathrooms. I returned it, but I probably should've just absconded to Tierra del Fuego. Most people don't deserve to be robbed, but this particular asshole boss sure does.

I am currently employed in relativly senior role within a data management company, this makes me privy to all manner of confidential client data currently in storage. Just yesterday a client requested a box of their data from storage, nothing unusual in that; what was unusual was that the box in question was part of a large law firms inventory and happened to contain;
13 copies of Michael Jacksons "Thriller" album, 2 copies of Elton Fucking Johns "Good by Yellow Brick Road" and 1 copy of an album thoughtfully titled "Hits of the Seventies"... All were in mint condition and in some cases still sealed in cellophane.

I also know for a fact that there is a box in storage that measures 4.2 cu ft and contains 1 Wellington boot (left, size 9, green)